E. Grace Veatch

Photo of Grace Veatch standing in front of a gray rock wall, and on the ground near her is a backpack, waterbottle and other field equipment. She is smiling, has dark hair, and is facing the camera. She holding a small laptop and recording pen, and wearing gray field pants, fleece jacket, and t-shirt, with a light colored scarf and dark sunglasses on her head

Grace Veatch received her PhD in Anthropology from Emory University in 2021 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Origins Program of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Grace’s interests are in hominin dietary behavior, paleoecology, and foraging theory. Her primary research takes place at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia and centers on understanding the foraging behaviors and diets of Homo floresiensis and modern humans during the Pleistocene and Holocene using taphonomic, zooarchaeological, and ethnoarchaeological methods.

Publications:

Veatch E.G., Ringen E.J., Kilgore M.B., Jatmiko, 2021. Using niche construction theory to generate testable foraging hypotheses at Liang Bua. Evolutionary Anthropology, 30:8–16.

Roos C., Helgen K., Portela R.M., Thant N.M.L., Lwin N., Lin A.K., Lin A., Yi K.M., Soe P., Hein Z.M., Myint M.N., Ahmed T., Chetry D., Urh M., Veatch E.G., Duncan N., Kamminga P., Chua M., Yao L., Matauschek C., Meyer D., Liu Z., Li M., Fan P., Quyet K., Hofreiter M., Zinner D., Momberg F., 2020. Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Asian colobine genus Trachypithecus Reichenbach, 1862, with special focus on Trachypithecus phayrei (Blyth, 1847) and description of a new species. Zoological Research, 41(6):656-669.

Veatch E.G., Tocheri M.W., Sutikna T., McGrath K., Saptomo E. W., Jatmiko, Helgen K.M, 2019. Temporal shifts in the distribution of murine rodent body sizes at Liang Bua: New insights into the paleoecology of Homo floresiensis and other endemic fauna. Journal of Human Evolution, 130:45-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.02.002

Brooks, A.S., Yellen, J.E., Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Deino, A.L., Leslie, D.E., Ambrose, S.H., Ferguson, J., d’Errico, F. Zipkin, A.M., Whittaker, S., Post, J., Veatch, E.G., Foecke, K., Clark, J.B., 2018. Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age, Science. http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aao2646

Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., Brooks, A.S., Yellen, J.E., Deino, A.L., Kinyanjui, R., Clark, J.B., Haradon, C., Levin, N.E., Meijer, H.J.M., Veatch, E.G., Owen, R.B., Renaut, R.W., 2018. Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa, Science. http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aao2200 

Helgen, K.M., and E.G. Veatch. 2015. Recently extinct Australian marsupials and monotremes. Pp. 17-31 in Handbook of Mammals of the World, Volume 5, Monotremes and Marsupials, D.E. Wilson and R.A. Mittermeier (editors), Lynx Editions, Barcelona